Rob Rice – författare

World War II recedes ever faster now from recollection, but it is the intention of the Esterhazy Press to refresh those fading colors with a series of new adventures into the labyrinth of military memories. Leo Davis, sired and trained by survivors of The Great War, faces the fury of Imperial Japan and the intense and sophisticated savagery of Nazi Germany with his four feet firmly planted. Read within of his and others’ acts of courage and determination to prevent the victory of unendurable evil. In the course of his service Davis acquaints those who read of his exploits with determined, doomed generals; beaten tankers with one last fight left in them; SS killers and a donkey-eared pilot out to find and destroy Hitler’s Vergeltungswaffen. From Luzon to the frozen misery of Bastogne, heroes of different minds and bodies act together in a world-wide victorious struggle against foes and beliefs that human and all other manifestations of kindly intelligence could not allow to conquer.

Behind the scenes of history… Lurked desperate men with strange knowledge, doctors with dangerous cures, and scientists terrified by their own discoveries. Join the heir to a faerie legacy and his bloody companion on a journey that ends before the very ramparts of New Orleans and in the smoke of a terrifying battle. What was the secret Winston Churchill’s valet sought to share with his employer from beyond the grave? Meet Flight Lieutenant Neville ‘Bunny’ Edwards, who in the course of the Second World War loses his humanity, but never his courage or his determination to stay in the fighting. Illustrated by Donna Barr, http:www.stinz.com

There is something in the shadows... There, in the corner of the glass... Perhaps it''s just an imperfection, the mirror is old and neglected... But you know that it''s not an imperfection. There is something, there, moving with purpose. Something that wants something... And what might that something be There is something in the Bayeaux around New Orleans... Something tragic. Something evil. There is a reason why a man hardened in the school of the alley and the life-preserver cannot think of the heads in Blenheim Castle without shuddering, and a horrible reason for what some would call a dire revenge. There is an exhibit in a museum that, to a trained mind, radiates fear... betrayal... bewilderment. There is something moving in the darkness in the mirror.

You are invited to meet a scholar turned traveler, pilgrim, soldier and voyager in a long-vanished world where philosophers train general-kings, empires rise and shatter, and technology teeters on the very brink of industrial revolution. Herein can be found the writings of Loquacious of Rhodes, student of Aristotle, acquaintance of Plato, awed and amazed by the world around him, whose accounts of his time it is the very great pleasure of the Esterhazy Press to spread here before you. The Fourth Century B.C. is a forgotten era of huge ships, huge weapons, epic battles, and epic voyages. In Loquacious’s world, centaurs, satyrs, silenoi and men fought, voyaged, lived and died together—and who is to say in another reality that such great exploits are but myth? Miracles of nature, miracles of the gods—and miracles of science and ingenuity display themselves suddenly in terrifying instruments of war and great voyages to the edge of the known world.